Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dark Rapture (Denis-Roosevelt). If there is anything more painfully familiar to followers of travel cinema than the spectacle of a group of African natives dressed in last week's laundry and chewing old twigs, it is the spectacle of the same African natives abusing a tame lion, which the sound track describes as a man-eating monster. The cinema has, in fact, covered the subject of Africa so frequently and so badly that cinemaddicts might be excused for believing that the whole terrain must be at once less worthy of attention and more thoroughly photographed than any other...
...brilliant but cold" Georgian buildings, in the social life of its myriad inhabitants, and in the attitude of the University as a whole toward life and liberalism, that upperclassmen and graduates can only growl feebly when they read them. Like communism the word indifference has a kind of African mystery to it, as thought if analyzed, it might explode in one's face and release snakes and tigers. Really it is the tool of description for those who do not understand a social condition easily explained by Henry Adams, the Porcellian Club, or Samuel Eliot Morison's history...
...Davenport Theatre was last week performing Zunguru by an African playwright-composer, Asadata Dafora Horton, whose Kykunkor got rave notices from Broadway critics in 1934. Primitive in plot, Zunguru was a kind of savage vaudeville, with three blacks pounding African drums, brown girls strutting their stuff, a witch doctor gabbling and shrieking, a fire-eater munching lighted torches-all of it "background" for Boy Meets Girl in Senegal...
Last week, world-famous anthropologists at the Cambridge meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science listened with shock and bewilderment to the description of the anthropoid ape fossil which Dr. Robert Broom of the Transvaal Museum discovered in the South African Sterkfontein caves last fall. The ape, of the family Australopithecus transvaalensis, lived in the Pleistocene days, when Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus were already beating down lesser men. Since South Africa was treeless, Australopithecus must have walked on the ground. Whether it walked human-fashion is not known, since the bones of the lower leg have not been...
Died. Dr. Leo Frobenius, 65, explorer, ethnologist, anthropologist; at Intra, Lake Maggiore, Italy. In 1912, Frobenius opened up the richest continental deposit of cave paintings and engravings on the first of his twelve African expeditions, subsequently became recognized as a top-rank authority on prehistory. Selections from the mammoth Frobenius collection at Frankfurt-am-Main were last year giving a whopping exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME...